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Image of a bird in a Porphyrian Tree.

Porphyrian Pelican. A bird in a printed logical diagram.

Title: The exceptionally limited edition book Part 1. Bound in cloth taken from the author's wardrobe! (image of tweed-bound book) Indecipherably elegant font! Your mere presence sullies its beauty! Part 2. Luxurious presentation! (the book inside) Three slipcases (inside a) Lightproof Velvet bag (indide a) Archival Glass box (inside a) Lead-lined Biometric safe Part 3. Scroll of Authenticity! (image of long, text-covered scroll with am ornate seal) Includes author's signature, home phone number and invitation to stay for a few days over the summer. Part 4. Too heavy to hold: reading assistants On standby 24/7 (image of two figures holding huge book) Sign up promptly to ensure you are considered for the waiting list to enter the lottery to register your interest in preordering a copy!

‘The exceptionally limited edition book.’ (My cartoon for this week’s @theguardian.com books)

Y’all here is a fun fact: Portland has a brand new volunteer organization called “operation inflation” that allows people to borrow inflatable costumes for protests. They just started a couple weeks ago and have like a 160 costume library (and counting because people keep donating).

I just keep thinking about the first guy to put on the frog costume reading the news today and seeing frogs literally all over the world

what a fucking thing, man

that 25 year old did more for the country in a week than most of the NYT op-ed section in a lifetime

The House Archives Built & Other Thoughts on Black Archival Possibilities Virtual Book Launch · Luma We'll celebrate the release of Dorothy Berry's book "The House Archives Built & Other Thoughts on Black Archival Possibilities" (https://www.weherepress.org/)…

If your Monday night-in is looking a little dry, listen to me and my fantastic friend and colleague Barrye <3

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Sending out a random request to the universe —

If there are any Borges scholars in my network, or if anyone has a connection to a Borges scholar and could DM me their name, I would love to find such people.

😍 Boston, you are beautiful. #NoKings

Weirdly, I learned all of the verses in elementary school music class although I don’t remember them fully now

The Obama Hope poster, but it's a frog and it says "Hop"

I saw a tragically AI-generated version of this poster, so I have recreated a 100% human-made version for all your protest sign needs.

Love it!

Heads up

Brb just writing a screenplay about a struggling inflatable costume factory in a wholesome but dying American small town that unexpectedly helps save democracy, and democracy saves it right back.

“This is an oracle deck inspired by the ones who anchor our families and keep our culture … Each suit has not only its own quilt code but its own spiritual category: Spirits of Heat (Clubs), Spirits of the Land (Diamonds), Spirits of the Water (Hearts) and Spirits of Flight (Spades).”

“The suits in the How We Be Free card deck are paired with the elements of land, spirit, study, and care, which represent the building blocks of Free Black Towns [plot of land, church, school, and benevolent society] founded both before and after Emancipation.”

How We Be Free: a Black fugitive study kit Playing cards, dice and dynamic Black study... guided by the legacies and practices of freedom-seeking ancestors.

2) How We Be Free: a Black fugitive study kit

Grandma Baby's Deck of the Grand Mothers Conjured Cards for Hoodoos

I have a hobby alt, but just in case any mutuals may be interested, here are two Kickstarter campaigns that I backed today.

1) @grandmababyapothecary.com’s Deck of the Grandmothers

Saul Williams sitting on stage in a pair of tabis, reading my new book

Saul Williams loves "The House Archives Built," seems like the cool decision would be to grab your own copy!

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The star and stripe count can’t be right on that

Old woman yells at [cursive] cloud[writing]

When I visited the Neon Museum in Las Vegas last weekend, I was surprised by how many times I heard someone ask what a sign said because they could not read cursive letters

OUT NOW ❤️‍🔥The House Archives Built & Other Thoughts on Black Archival Possibilities by Dorothy Berry is now available: www.weherespace.org. The first 50 copies sold will be signed.

light skinned Black woman with natural hair parted down the middle (me!) wearing gold earrings and an orange-red dress, holding a small paperback book with a mint green-blue cover and a variety of vintage + antique photos

I am beyond excited (and nervous!) to announce that my first book, "The House Archives Built and Other Thoughts on Black Archival Possibilities" is available for sale!

This series of essay includes reworked talks, new reflections, and a lot of my heart

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Writing a thing about Salem (again) & just to reiterate a thing I once said in a Monster of the Month talk:

50-90% of what we call the paranormal—from witchcraft to ghosts to what-have-you—can be explained by the fact that patriarchal cultures despise teenage girls & have no idea what to do w/them.

Almost everything I've seen about implementing AI in archives feels as though it was written in a world with neither archivists nor archival description

Having just passed that milestone, I feel both relieved and disappointed that I didn’t accomplish everything I wanted

You may have noticed that folks who are from Chicago love this city. There's a reason for that. I walked to the lake with friends yesterday, and when I saw the waves rolling in, I felt something shift back into place inside of me. So many parts of this city are part of me. We will defend this place.

Same

That’s a gorgeous sunset!

A vertically oriented rectangular graphic with a blue background has white text reading, “Join our team! Rare Book School at the University of Virginia is searching for a detail-oriented, self-motivated, and forward-thinking full-time Program Manager to assist the Director of Programs & Education in facilitating excellent educational programming. Review of applications will begin 30 October 2025 and continue until the position is filled.” The lower right quadrant has a circular frame with a photo of a group of adults standing around a long table on which a number of books are laid out on foam supports, listening to a man on the right as he gestures over the books. At the bottom of the graphic, white text on a green background reads, “Visit our website to learn more: rarebookschool.org/about-rbs/employment”.

Rare Book School is searching for a detail-oriented, self-motivated, and forward-thinking full-time Program Manager to assist in facilitating excellent educational programming.

Review of applications begins 30 October.

Details at rarebookschool.org/about-rbs/employment/

#Booksky

A peepshow book depicting a conductor and an orchestra.

A peepshow book depicting people in a library.

A peepshow book depicting a whale in front of a ship.

What do you get when you cross a peepshow with a petite book? A peti-pshow!

A peepshow, or tunnel book, is a book format that spaces multiple illustrated leaves apart from one another to create an illusion of depth when viewed through a front opening.